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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "back the health function of the national Government. Will it be better? Many Kenyans ask. Out of the 196 facilities that I have in Nandi, including the Kapsabet County Referral Hospital and level four hospitals, there is nothing to write home about. We must ask ourselves the hard question: Why do Kenyans go to health facilities and not get drugs? Why do Kenyans walk into some hospitals and the watchmen give them drugs? In Turkana County, a Form Four dropout was dispensing drugs. We need to be serious because this is unfortunate. I want to ask Sen. Faki, through the Committee of Sen. Mandago – if he is elected the chair of the Committee on Health – to start a commission of enquiry into the state of health facilities across the 47 counties. Even in Kisii County, there is nothing to write home about. I want to encourage the Sen. Mandago-led Committee to look at Mombasa County and let this be a precursor to an enquiry on the state of health across 47 counties. In Nandi County, my people are suffering. Even today, as we are talking, if they are not suffering in hospitals, they are suffering in towns. The governor was evicting residents from their main market. Sen. Oburu knows Kapsabet well because he asked me about the town of Kapsabet on several occasions. Residents have been evicted. You are suffering when you are well and you are suffering when you are in the hospital. So, I want to thank Sen. Faki, and I expect the deputy Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party leader to do better. I want to send the ODM deputy party leader, Sen. Osotsi, to encourage Governor Abdulswamad Sharrif Nassir. It is not the tradition of ODM to perform poorly. Sen. Sifuna, as the Secretary General of the ODM party, you need to pull up your socks. As a party, you could invite your governor, so that we do not embarrass him in public. Sen. Sifuna can read the Riot Act. The Secretary-General has so many powers."
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